Buried No Longer
The Ephesos Museum is in the Haus der Geschichte Österreich in Vienna. Excavations over more than a century have produced wonderful...
George Soros and the inauguration of CEU’s Vienna campus
I first met George Soros in Tirana 20 years ago. His Open Society Foundations had little short of a holy status among young Albanians....
Claudio - delivered by Amazon Prime?
An exhibition about the Emperor Claudius with a sub-title dedicated to his women is currently on at the Ara Pacis, Rome. I tend not to go...
An extraordinary English cathedral of sorts.
Just off the busy Oxford to Swindon highway lies one of Europe’s great cathedrals. Great Coxwell barn is not of course a cathedral, but...
AN EPIPHANY: FORUM (OF PEACE) WARE & ITALIAN HISTORY
I had an epiphany on Friday. I went to see the latest excavations in Rome’s Forum of Peace (the Forum of Vespasian) and a new discovery...
Small Things Forgotten: Rome’s ‘orange garden’
Rome has precious gardens and spaces but only in Santa Sabina’s fortified garden (the Parco Savello) can you see the city and consume the...
Jonathan Coe’s Middle England, 2019
In a week in which the UK’s new Boris Johnson (Conservative) government has faced unprecedented and well-deserved trials at the hands of...
Odysseus and Naucicaa
Twenty five years since we crossed to begin our excavations at Butrint in Albania and had our excitement dashed by our Albanian...
Homage to a Périgord placemaker - Hallam Movius, Jr.
Périgord is blessed with Palaeolithic caves and exceptional castles. Two Americans played a part in making one of each a destination. The...
San Vincenzo al Volturno
Forty years since I was asked by the soprintendente if I would consider excavating at San Vincenzo al Volturno. Listen to (Prof) Andrea...
